Chapter-10 (Downloading/Uploading)



Question: What is downloading and uploading speed?

Answer: The download speed is how fast you can pull data from the server to you. Most connections are designed to download much faster than they upload, since the majority of online activity, like loading web pages or streaming videos, consists of downloads. Download speed is measured in megabits per second (Mbps).

Question: What is the difference between downloading and uploading speed?

Answer: Your broadband download speed will determine how quickly you can receive information from the internet. For example, you may use the internet to download music files, view websites or watch TV online - all of these functions require information (data) to be downloaded from the web.
Much like your broadband download speed, your upload speed will determine how quickly you can send files, information and data to the internet. For example, when you send pictures to your family via social networking sites, or when you play games online with your friends, you are uploading data to the internet.

Question: Give Example of downloading and uploading?

Answer: To "upload" something is generally understood to mean, "putting something on the internet", for example, uploading photographs to facebook. Contributions to online-archives may also be referred to as "uploads", for example books, audit reports, fax transmission reports, etc.
Download any Movie/.MP3 file from Internet.

Question: What is the concept of bandwidth and protocol of downloading and uploading?

Answer: In computing, bandwidth is the bit-rate of available or consumed information capacity expressed typically in metric multiples of bits per second. Variously, bandwidth may be characterized as network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth.

From an Internet user's point-of-view, downloading is receiving a file from another computer. The File Transfer Protocol ( FTP ) is the Internet facility for downloading and uploading files.